Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 10:21:00 +0100
From: "lemaire patrick" <lemaire at lgpd.univ-mrs.fr>
Reply-To: "lemaire patrick" <lemaire at lgpd.univ-mrs.fr>
To: lmichel at lgme.u-strasbg.fr
Subject: Warning!
>X-Sender: basler at rzu-mailhost.unizh.ch>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 10:13:01 +0200
>To: a-furley at uk.ac.mrc.nimr>From: basler at zool.unizh.ch (Konrad Basler)
>Subject: warning
>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
>receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read
>the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. Some
>miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "good times" nation-wide. If
>you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virus that
>rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be careful
>and forward this mail to anyone you care about--I have.
>*******************Forwarded Message**********************
>WARNING!!!!!!!!!: INTERNET VIRUS
>>The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major
>importance to any regular user of the InterNet. Apparently, a new
>computer virus has been engineered by a user of America Online that is
>unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other, more well-known viruses
>such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in comparison to the
>prospects of this newest creation by a warped mentality. What makes this
>virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to be
>exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the
>existing e-mail systems of the InterNet. Once a computer is infected, one
>of several things can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that
>will most likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the
>computer's processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary
>loop - which can severely damage the processor if left running that
>way too long. Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not
>realize what is happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is
>one sure means of detecting what is now known as
>the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to new computers the same way in
>a text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good Times".
>Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - notreading
>it. The act of loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes
>the "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The
>program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of itself to everyone
>whose e-mail address is contained in a received-mail file or a sent- mail
>file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer it is
>running on. The bottom line here is - if you receive a file with the
>subject line "Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it!
>Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From:" line was surely struck
>by the virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest
>threat to the InterNet! It could save them a lot of time and money.
>
Patrick Lemaire
IBDM
Case 907
F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9
France
Tel: 33-91269745
Fax: 33-91269726
e-mail: lemaire at lgpd.univ-mrs.fr
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